Art & Soul Short #38
Clouds at Dawn. James Hamilton Shegogue (American, 1806 – 1872). Watercolor over graphite. 6.3 × 12.5 cm (2 1/2 × 4 15/16 in.). National Gallery of Art open access. Cloud, Me Cloud-spine elongates, and vertebrae, ribby knuckles, separate, form a gap before the vaporous pelvis. Sky flexes and stretches. Clouds form and float, wisping into shapes that reflect the body, remind me I am that. That sky missing half a side of ribs. Whole back now missing sky. My cloud self. Sky miss